Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera often mistaken for Blackthorn.

Sunday 28 February

Billy Swan being escorted back to the Big Lodge by me this morning, he was on the play area - think he must have been chasing Swans off - he only has one cygnet left as last week two of the three were killed after crashing into the trees - the full grown cygnets are believed to have been blown into the trees.  He now seems to want to keep this one, we thought this would happen when his mate was killed last year by a dog, he has brought the youngsters up and tragedy still still stalks him with this latest accident.

Sunrise

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

Firethorn - Pyracantha coccinea

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Sunday 14 February

Sunrise over the Big Lodge - Yarrow Valley - Lancashire

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

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Monday 16 March

Cool & Dull

 Canada Geese

Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 

 Dogwood - Cornus sanquinea

 Frog Spawn

 Hawthorn - Crataegus monogyna

 Charlie Robin collecting nesting material

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

 

Woodruff - Galium odoratum

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Sunday 15 March

Overcast & cool

Big Lodge

Car Park

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera always flowers just ahead of the Blackthorn

Finally found some frog spawn

Won't be long before the Terns return

One of last year'sTeasel - Dipsacus fullonum

This year's Teasel - Dipsacus fullonum just showing

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Monday 12 May

Good Morning

on the lower burgh meadow

 Unripe fruit of the Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

Ragged Robin - Silene flos-cuculi

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Sunday 9 March

Lots of photos today so I will split them up.

Flowers & Leaves today

 Alder - Alnus glutinosa showing the female flowers above the male catkins

 Butterbur - Petasites hybridus

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera showing the green thornless shoot with the Flowers in the lower photo

 Cowslip - Primula veris

 Garlic Mustard - Alliaria petiolata

 Red Campion - Silene dioica

Russian Comfrey - Symphytum x uplandicum

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Tuesday 4 March

Just a few photos today :)

 Blue Anemone - Anemone apennina

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

Dipper

Primrose - Primula vulgaris

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Friday 21 February

Dry & a drop in temperature frost this morning, the weathers so erratic.

A walk on the Lower Burgh Meadow

 Finally flowering, Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 Dog's Mercury - Mercurialis perennis, male flowers

Thank goodness for the gates, these two are very vocal and sound the part

 Gorse - Ulex europaeus, in flower

 Our pretty Primrose - Primula vulgaris

The Small Lodge

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Thursday 6 February

Another morning we stayed dry - a bonus for a grand walk

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 Cherry Plum - Prunus cerasifera

 Cowslip Leaves - Primula veris

Female Flower - Hazel - Corylus avellana

Male Flower - Hazel - Corylus avellana

Rabbit on the Rucks

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